October 13, 2017 - Being accused of security fraud at your previous company. “I’ll take ‘Things Not to Do During Your Probationary Hiring Period’ for $500, Alex.” Nonetheless, Anand Jayapalan, the new vice president of Micron’s Storage Business Unit, has been accused of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) with insider trading at SanDisk only about six weeks into...... READ MORE

Blogs

OK, everybody knows that the Fall Creators Update for Windows 10, aka Build 1709, goes live on 10/17. But on Friday, October 13, MS posted info about what else is available that day. This comes from the TechNet Windows for IT Pros blog, in a post entitled “Windows 10, version 1709 coming soon.” Ke…READ MORE

I know I’ve been really slacking on getting this year judges list for speaker idol posted. A lot of this is just because of everything else that’s been going on leading up to the PASS summit, specifically my insane travel schedule to SQL Saturday’s Microsoft Ignite, and the SQL 2017 Launch, and shif…READ MORE

NEW YORK — Hardly a day goes by without a prediction about how artificial intelligence will radically change our lives — driving our cars, running errands, sucking up jobs. But what is the state of enterprise AI?

In a McKinsey & Co. survey of 3,000 executives conducted earlier this year on …READ MORE

Docker and Hewett Packer Enterprise (HPE) hit the road this month to demonstrate their recently launched Modernize Traditional Applications (MTA) program, designed to help enterprises update their existing legacy apps and move forward with their plans for digital transformation. The presentation…READ MORE

The age of connected vehicles is bringing exciting new innovations and transportation options. Yet, as more connected vehicles take the road each day, the need for strong security protocols continues to increase. Security protections are essential to maximize the benefits of connected cars, and keep…READ MORE

The ability to mix the virtual world of digital content and information – text, sounds, images and video – with the physical world of three-dimensional space we inhabit has long appealed. Science fiction has envisaged this in two ways; the fully immersive synthetic environment of Virtual Reality (VR…READ MORE

SAN FRANCISCO — In a lot of circles, shadow IT is considered a dirty term — something IT should prevent at all costs. In reality, however, shadow IT can be a great resource for IT departments, helping them identify problem areas and understand what users really need to get their jobs done.

In a letter to the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health IT’s National Coordinator, Don Rucker, the Pew Charitable Trusts (PEW) as well as several other healthcare organizations urged ONC to “consider and incorporate improvements to safety” — especially with pediatric EHR software –…READ MORE

I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Cuong Le, Senior Vice President of Field Operations for Data Dynamics to discuss what has become a very hot topic – “digital transformation.” He shared with me his thoughts on the challenges being faced by those hoping to reap digital transformat…READ MORE

Digital transformation and cloud offer opportunities, not redundancy, for CIOs and software developers, said California Department of Conservation CIO Catherine Kendall. “It’s a great time to be a developer,” she said during an Oracle OpenWorld customer panel on digital transformation project…READ MORE

Google’s dominant search engine has always been driven by smart software. But around 2012, the search giant quietly transformed the way users could search for information – and that’s a change that many of us are going to want to see in othe…READ MORE

Everywoman has extended the deadline for its FDM everywoman in technology awards to allow more time for nominations – 2016 everywoman Startup Founder of the Year award winner Sophie Deen discusses how her win impacted her business.

Sophie Deen, founder and CEO of Bright Little Labs, had not ex…READ MORE

In Southeast Asia, Huawei and Alibaba are already household names to those who have either bought something online from Alibaba-owned Lazada or used Huawei’s Leica-branded P10 smartphones to take snapshots.

While the two Chinese tech giants have made significant inroads in the region’s consum…READ MORE

I have been a pretty staunch opponent of certification in the past. I spent years working as an instructor for a program that dealt in hands on experience. To get through a class, students had to perform tasks, and then debrief on what they did and why with their peers. Assuming a student made it th…READ MORE

Alongside Splunk’s annual event Splunk.conf runs the software firm’s learning and certification course, Splunk University, where in 2017 I spent a day learning how to use Splunk to deep dive data and improve my big data skills.

As is common with third party software deployments, firms usuall…READ MORE